#idk how to handle that one

[ruporas]

drank too much

[ID: Digital Art of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. Vash’s body is turned slightly away from the viewer as he holds a staggering Wolfwood by his shoulder. He has one foot ahead of the other, the foot in the back used to stabilize himself from tipping over. Wolfwood is tethering into Vash, his weight pressed into him with his arms wrapped around Vash’s waist and his face is hidden away as he leans against Vash’s shoulder. Vash’s expression can be seen, his eyes wide and mouth tight-lipped, and his face is flushed red. A speech bubble comes out from Wolfwood, saying a drawled “Spikeyyy...”. The background are desaturated pastels of blue and green, showing night time, as they stand in the middle of an empty street that is also lit by the moon not depicted. Yellow light is seen coming from the inside of a saloon. End ID]

#vashwood #Vash the Stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #when i think of who handles their alcohol best -- it's going to be vash naturally. considering his age but also his plant biology? #idk how his plant biology comes into things but it feels like it makes sense... and helps build his tolerance... also he's canonically #a bit of an alcoholic i think... one of his vices. and im sure ww drinks but his go-to comfort is through smoking not drinking #slight detour but the barkeeper was also like i'm the angel that provides drinks for these troubled souls. all i could think of is #a parallel from ww to vash... vash going thru this hell on his own during that point in the chapter and ww is the angel who will give him #his space and then also save him later. But anyway. that's a completely different topic. as a result of ww Not being much of a drinker #i feel like he'd be clingy... a LOT less verbal but more physically affectionate #i feel like he'd be able to speak as he normally does but when he wants to ask for something he'd just reduce it down to names #spikey needle noggin while tugging on vash's arm. vash explodes immediately #this is also very self indulgent if u cant tell. #i was just thinking that ww while sober is a hard cage to crack through no matter how close vw gets to one another. #while ww can end up being emotionally vulnerable -- has to at some point within their relationship -- he still just has tons of trouble #navigating his own personal wants. #ruporas art

[zurka-durka]

(they got into a fight and now it’s awkward silence mixed with regret)

#one punch man #high school au #saigenos #saitama #genos #idk what they were arguing about #they don’t know how to handle their fights #my art

[jeeaark]

Learned that illithids feel intensely. Which would Not have helped Greygold's current mood one bit! Really, under such major life changes, I think Greygold is coping exceptionally well. Too well even...

I can only conclude it's because they've figured out how to compartmentalize their feelings squid-style. Nothing like throwing all those messy negative vibes into a mental bag of holding in the back of their mind to sort out later. Or never! Is fine. Everything is fine.

Probably only vibe sensitive folk could hear their constant internal cussing. (was me. I was their constantly cussing vibe)

Bonus:

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #illithid tav #greygold #squid greygold #Greygold looked like they handled the end game so cool and collectedly to everyone #because I was carrying all their table-flipping rage for them. I am their existential fury #I don't know what Greygold is talking about with the feelings thing. Probably discovered the movie inside out #Maybe Greygold has feels-ception idk #also-how Greygold attack with a one foot tentacle whip??

[jellidraws]

i had an idea for a canary fakemon that glows when it sings, so miners used to use it as a light source. this was very dangerous for the pokemon and many of them died. the spirits of some of those pokemon became trapped in the mines and now haunt them, taking revenge for their untimely demise by using their light and song to lure unwary people and pokemon to their deaths ^_^

#pokemon #fakemon #no names for these guys yet i was simply struck with inspiration and had to draw out some designs #specifically i remembered the song birdhouse in your soul and then i thought 'hm that would make a cool pokemon' #and the ghost one was inspired by historical mining practices involving canaries + fire safety lamps (used in mines) #the ring handle was supposed to resemble a halo but idk how clearly that came through sdfjd #also to be clear this is not an evolution line! i have an evolution line planned for the alive one already

[floorpancakes]

ok but im rly into the idea of till having a new era that brings the light back to his eyes and drives him forward if he gets to escape the arena. idk where he'd go from there but i want to see ivans sacrifice both haunt him and drive him to actually live his damn life after being the captured bird refusing freedom cause of mizi. once he knows she's alive with the resistance he might be able to actually experience other things and widen his world and if that happens and he puts his personal sense of rebellion towards the human cause OR settles into finding some other way to feel fulfilment that isn't a single person that could be deeply fascinating to me i think

#alien stage #ramble #idk #till alien stage #as an xxxholic fan i want to see caged birds fly and all the fear and loss and grit and progress that comes with it #till era would be so fucking fun #especially when characters r built arnd one person or one goal or something you want to see them find new things to suffer or thrive abt (?) #random inconsequential thought imagine till hooking up with hyunas besties and they become a resistance throuple #idk i just want till to experience the wider world as the one that was the most restrained by his heart AND literally #cause even compared to the other anakt kids he suffered so much in those damn buildings and labs #i wanna see him freed and what that means for ivans legacy as the person who was unseen but someone who both contributed to and desperately #tried to stop his pain and confinement no matter what #honestly the thing i wanna see most rn off the top of my head is #till coming to terms with what he knows and sees about ivan now #no matter how he feels about it i think ivan wont be forgotten that easily #i want to know whats going thru tills head rn immediately in this moment #cause this snapped him in some way and he is acutely aware of things he didnt even notice before #while handling the mizi desth thing #that he assumed was happening #if he is assumedly saved i want to see the explosion that is knowung mizi is alive #knowing ivan is dead and how ivan felt #and knowing he has a way out of the cage #because its a triple whammy #i want to see his brain exploding in real time thinking abt all these things #and what sort of person the revelations will make him become #also i want to see mizi and till have like an actual conversation cause itd be a wildcard especially right now

[chaosgenasi]

#idk if this makes sense but complicated mentor-mentee relationships my absolute beloved #also i keep saying it but i'm so obsessed with how midst handles POV. i thought sherman was dead but that was just lark's perspective #and i loved not really knowing what to make of spahr for most of season one and then this episode #it's like oh obviously he and phineas are very similar bc the trust is horrible/he's probably training phineas how he was trained etc. #just. it's all SO GOOD. and now we're in the FOLD and LARK is here. i'm so excited #midst

[bonerot19]

did you know that every time someone says my writing rewired their brain chemistry it temporarily heals me of all my woes? replenishes my life force? acts as a barrier between me and the Horrors?

#I'm literally crying rn #people are being so nice to me and idk how to handle it #I've received more love from stranger's on the internet in one month than I did in my entire childhood #writing #ao3 #my fic!!

[sableghost]

@f1blrcreatorsfest SPECIAL WEEKEND EVENT: FAVORITE DRIVER — LEWIS HAMILTON

#lewis hamilton #f1 #formula 1 #f1edit #f1blrcreatorsfest23 #double post day babyyyyy #since i might be busy most of this week.... #the numbers are going counter clockwise.. but the years are rising... idk i was indecisive abt how to handle that lol #i too have more than one fav.... #my edit

[arinmoss]

Hatsune Miku doodle

#basically mt older brother had a laptop he wasn't using anymore and techinically gave it to my mom #but my mom gave it to me since she already has a laptop #anyways the colors are kinda eh but i didn't feel like painting or being colorful rn idk wanted a simple easy thing to get used to having #to use a wacom tablet again -___- #going to try and finish up my one commission left plus maybe draw those requests i got on kofi digitally hehe #tho drawing on this tablet is kinda the worst but i did draw on this for like years but....main did my surface pro spoil me -___- #keep trying to remind myself how one of my fave artists litcherally draws with a MOUSE PAD like i can. i can handle a screenless tablet #even tho i dont want to -______- #art #doodle #miku #hatsune miku #vocaloid #vocaloid fanart #fanart #digital art #sketch #illustration #vocaloid miku #artwork #arin moss #arin moss art

[kaseyskat]

since ive already been pretty open about this and im not afraid to whack a hornets nest i'll go ahead and say it: if you were raising a kid in a pseudo-apocalyptic setting and then you found out that said kid was going to be the one to defeat the eldritch god that you have tried to defeat for half your lifetime and could never manage. that she was going to FACE that eldritch god it was prophesied. you would teach her how to defend herself and how to fight. like god i am not saying hero's trauma from it wasn't justified because i do think the twins took it too far but the initial process of training her makes so much more sense if you approach it at the angle of "this kid is going to do something we've been trying to do since we were twelve and couldn't manage and we might not even be there to help her so we have to make sure she doesn't die in the process" and not "we're going to make her fix our mistakes" it makes sense. goes along with lark's running theme of not being strong enough in the moments that matter and wanting to make sure nobody else ever feels as helpless as he did when walter was injured. goes along with sparrow desperately tempting fate with normal's name- not because normal was an accident, but because sparrow never wanted to lose even one kid to the doodler and it was a fervent, desperate wish to let normal get to be normal

#dndads #kasey rambles #sorry im feeling especially spiteful today #cause again i do think. the twins get the least amount of nuance from the fandom #tell me how yall were just fighting for glenn so hard and then you turn around and tell me that the twins are evil monsters skahsdkfhkdhsf #like idk. it makes sense to me! #if hero was supposed to fight the doodler but they dont know WHEN it would happen. theyd train her early #make sure it was a fight she could win #and thats also why shes NOT in the chosen one position anymore #she wanted to leave and now that she could reasonably defend herself should she be threatened. its fine! #if they really only wanted her to fix their mistakes she would not have been allowed to leave. lmao #again this isn't to say that she wasn't traumatized from the experience like. #i think the twins shouldve been honest with her and there shouldnt have been so much pressure #but i get why they felt the need to make sure she could handle herself in a fight so early on #also like. this kind of thing happens in so many post apocalyptic settings its not even uncommon #yall just dont see this world as being post apocalyptic and it shows LMAO

[turtledotjpeg]

#don't ask what they're sitting on for kurapika to be at that angle lol #it's a shhhhhhh don't worry about it moment #hunter x hunter #hxh #kurapika #senritsu #melody hxh #kurasen #idk i just like how they're kind of quiet and gentle with each other #i think it's sweet #...love how you can look at the line weight and clearly see which hands i sketched out in like 5 seconds and forgot about #and which ones i had to painstakingly noodle into place #one set of fingers i can (sort of) handle but two? now that's kind of

[bonefall]

Hi Bones!! Thank you for you hard work on this project and for sharing it with us!

I've seen your posts about weird representation of society (regarding the "natural order of things") in xenofiction, especially in lion king, so I wanted to ask:

could you recommend any xenofiction media that has all (or most of the) animal species sapient? Or is the only solution to make just one or two species sapient while the others (especially prey) are plain animals?

Really sorry if you've seen this ask from me before - my account had a weird laggy period when I couldn't send or receive messages and asks, so I don't know if you got the previous one! I just know that now it's fixed so I double all the asks sent haha

Honestly I'm not totally sure! If any 3rd person has some good recommendations for "every being is alive" xenofiction types, feel free to weigh in.

If you want to jump in with me though, I am following the webcomic Africa. It updates every Wednesday. Africa is about a mother Leopard on the verge of a great ecological disaster, the relationship between her children and the animals around her, and the strength of both instinct and choice as the characters face an uncertain future.

Since it's ongoing, I still don't know how it's going to end and can't judge it as a full work! But it's absolutely fascinating and I think the author is doing a fantastic job so far. Bonus points for the way it portrays humans, btw.

No more spoilers though, if you're interested, it's on Webtoons.

(I'm also planning to read Oren's Forge soon. Ask me about it again in a few months over on Bonebabbles and I'll give you my thoughts)

As an aside though, funny you mention it because like... ever since I was a kid I've had a story I want to tell with the premise. It's a scintilla I've kept close to me for well over a decade but haven't done anything official with. So this is actually a theme I've thought about a lot.

It's rare to see it done well though because like... its very premise butts heads with reality. The "natural order" that an animal follows is not something it moralizes. A tiger doesn't have the capacity to think about how fucked up it is to kill to stay alive, the deer doesn't know that if its population isn't controlled it will destroy the forest.

They're animals. They don't HAVE that agency. Your dog does not care about being sterilized. A snake doesn't differentiate between a pinky and an adult mouse except in terms of if it will fit in its mouth. But the minute you put human morality in there... they have the ability to reason, create and agree on the rules of a society, make choices about MORALITY.

If nothing is going to change about their world, you just end up putting human arguments about "natural order" in their mouths and, well... start telling a parable justifying this "natural order."

(Genuine) Does what I'm saying make sense? Animals DON'T rationalize or negotiate. HUMANS do.

So the minute you're approaching a world with that logic, like it or not, you are invoking those "arguments from nature." And you're putting them in a being that is not fully an animal or a human, but an anthropomorphic mix which CAN rationalize but WON'T make an effort to change their world.

(Which is why tbh the best examples i know of are works with a theme of "change.")

OH WAIT I also remember another that's interesting!! Leafy: Hen into the Wild actually has a fascinating take on it. It's not interested in "moralizing" or really being about an animal society. It's a very emotional sort of movie, and it's about joys in adversity, the freedom that choice gives you, how bad things are going to happen and you can never completely prevent them.

INTENSE movie emotionally, the ending will wreck you (especially in the English translation which leaves out a really important theme making it feel abrupt x_x) but it's really good. Check that one out.

OH and also You Are Umasou. That one has more pitfalls imo (it does try to moralize a bit) but it's super unique as a movie. And is about dinosaurs.

#Don't take my opinions as gospel tho #There's no ONE RIGHT WAY to tell a story or handle a theme #And every person can have a unique reading of any story #Some stories can even be interpreted super differently by going in with different readings #Media isn't a box you take the lid off of to loot for objectively correct objects #It's more like eating a meal #Examining ingredients/tropes and how they were used #Trying to identify what the author set out to do and if it accomplished it in its current form #And sometimes idk chicken noodle tastes like hot saltwater in one moment but then hits different 2 months later when surrounding-- #--circumstances (like being sick or cold) make it hit different #Point im getting at is that we could objectively say 'they used chicken and noodle' in this dish #But analysis and opinions and expressing them are an art of their own #Bone babble #Anyway prolly gonna be quiet the rest of the day so I can do clanmew prep lads #Media analysis #Xenofiction

[nuppu-nuppu]

Ignore if you don’t want to read about me being stupid once again

#pls dont read if you cant handle venting and whining #once again i am here to say that i am the loneliest person alive and i feel like i can’t grasp the basic consept of friendship and do it lol #like idk how to be friends #i feel like i will forever be sad and lonely #and i know everyone will say you can talk to me and i know that but i’ve just been by myself for so long that i don’t remember how to have #actual conversations with people i feel like i am disconnected from reality #i feel like i am an extremely unlikeable person and that’s why i was all alone in highschool and idk i am oversharing on the internet again #because it’s the only place i kind of feel safe doing it #pls take care of yourselves first before comfoting me or anything im sorry i sound very pathetic #how do i start living again #how does one live anyway #im just in my head all the time #this was supposed to be hot girl summer but it’s once again summertime sadness #im so stupid!!! #im so anxious and depressed that i dont know what to do with myself #im so sorry for oversharing i have a therapist dont worry im kind of taking care of myself #but the eternal loneliness just wont let me go #idk how to be a person anymore #i’m just sad #thinking of going to a church and pretend to be a believer so i could have a community again lol

[sunsetsandsunshine]

Okay but can we just talk about how Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey can FINALLY go to actual fucking therapy for once in this iteration of TMNT???

#Like every single TMNT iteration is traumatized #We all know that #But the mutant Mayhem boys are actually accepted into society unlike the other versions (that came out worse then what I meant…) #Anyway- #I hope Seth Rogen and everyone else that’s going to be working on the series can maybe dive into something having to do with turtles gettin #Therapy #It would be a great topic for kids to discuss I think #The boys could actually see a therapist #I would really REALLY love to see how they would handle a topic such as this #Tmnt #Mutant Mayhem #Tmnt Mutant Mayhem #Idk #I just think it would be neat #Now that I think abt it not just the turtles but every one of them can go to therapy

[hakusins]

great hawk the adorable the terror doodles!

#great hawk the terror #dol great hawk #dol #degrees of lewdity #dol related #fan art #art #mine #my fan art #my art #dol pc #eri the orphan #great hawk x pc #kind of? #BHREFBJEHRF #its just a silly doodle #because ive been missing my hawk husband #HES SO CUTE #like actually #how is he ... the fucking harpy that kidnaps us to the highest part of the tower #not as scary as the fucking caretaker that handles the orphanage??? #idk whether to laugh or cry tbh hRBERHF #i understand i am in the minority (mayhaps) but #i humbly request the dol gods to give pregnancy content for great hawk #kind of fucked up his face in this one :/// will try to redo it when im less sleepy!!!

[thisiseditsandstuff]

forever thinking about Venom putting a jacket around both Kaz and Quiet when he takes them back to mother base

#the vkaz/vquiet parallels are there and i see them #tho add to this the fire + water motives of vkaz and vquiet respectively .. many thoughts about what these two mean to V #and how their relationships play into the wider themes of the games #also something something V being a demon who thinks himself only capable of violence but handling his loved ones with so much gentleness #idk if anyone cares but theyre on my mind and i need to ramble SOMEWHERE #mgsv #metal gear solid